Thank you for your adjacent kind comments about the British, or English, as, more recently, we prefer to be known. I like to pretend that we don't care what anyone thinks of us, but we are real softies really. Sorry about the Stamp Tax, for what it's worth after all these years...

I'd like to take some credit for the now extremely high quality of your spelling and grammar, but no doubt - and quite rightly - you'll tell me to **** off.